My great-grandfather was a section boss on the Erie. Took his youngest son to work on the railroad. The son worked for the Erie then the Erie-Lackawanna for 42 years. When he retired someone asked him were he was going to go when he retired. His answer was "Someplace where I can't even hear a t...

You won't damage the firing pin nose, but you can enlarge the hole in the recoil shield where the firing pin goes through. In general dry firing is not a good idea unless you use snap caps or some other dry firing device. There was a purpose made dry firing piece for Webleys. It was a spring steel a...

Mongomery County and Prince George's County surround part of Washington DC. A few years ago the Washington Post aka The Daily Worker ran a story about police firing their weapons in the line of duty. They found that in the previous year Montgomery County law enforcement officers had fired their weap...

How about posting the dates for the summer collector's association show in B'ham. I think there should be one in July. I'll make the drive up from Pensacola. Maybe some of the forum members can meet up there.

Boy can I identify with that story. I live in Pensacola, Florida. In 2004 we were ground zero for hurricane Ivan. Luckily our house suffered very little damage, but we had over thirty trees down in the yard. Most of them were pine trees that were 18-24 inches in diameter and 60-80 feet tall. Lots of...

One of the great urban legends of the 20th century or effective propaganda. It keeps popping up on Enfield forums. There were a couple of threads about it on the Great War forum as well. The problem in making a hollow or soft point bullet by cutting the top off of a full metal jacketed one is that e...

Duh. Ok so I'm old, half blind and subject to mental lapses.

Still a very nice rifle.

Niner,

Great idea, I think it will bring a bunch of nice pieces out of the woodwork.

BTW I believe what you described as the fine elevation knob is in fact the windage adjustment knob.

Nice SMLE.

It seems to be having some problems today, but when it comes back up there are some good threads on this over at the gunboards enfield forum including pictures ans drawings.

Not to mention the pistol.